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Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “Meanwhile, before sunset, the men take down the beast and lay it on plastic sheets on top of our big marble table. They do unspeakable things to it that include skewering, rubbing it with lemon inside and out, piercing it with garlic and rosemary, and [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “Thus, with angels squeezed in amongst our rucksacks and climbing boots, we drove off. It took a while to leave the clutches of our megalopolis but, within an hour, we were snaking up the hills of northern Evia, into scenery that always brings to mind [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “Lemons as more than something to squeeze onto fish didn’t really enter my consciousness until I went to Greece. I had never even seen a lemon tree until those summers on Spetses back in the 60s.” Diana Farr Louis ATHENS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—4/15/2013—Remember the old song, [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “I think that without ‘The Crisis’ Alexander would never have made it to the stage. The singers, who have such wonderful voices, and the musicians would all have been doing their own thing. Costas should get a gold star for bringing something to everyone’s life [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “The Mediterranean Diet, rich in vegetable fats from extra virgin olive oil, leads to a longer, healthier life than a strict low-fat regime . . . .  But what if you could help other people as well as yourself when you buy your oil? Wouldn’t [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “It’s this uncertainty that’s demolishing us. If we knew what the year was going to cost, we could perhaps cope, but it’s only February and new surprises arrive every week. January’s pensions looked like they’d been to Weight Watchers, 25 percent lower than the previous [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “Ever since her first book, The Food and Wine of Greece, came out in 1993, Diane Kochilas has explored the various threads of Greek cooking—whether its vegetarian dishes, meze tradition, ethnic influences, or regional specialties—in depth and with love.” Diana Farr Louis ATHENS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—2/11/2013—There [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge  By Diana Farr Louis “The site of The Mysteries, one of the holiest in the Ancient World, was not on any but the most scholarly tourist’s list of ‘must sees.’ Only an expert could make sense of the jumbled heaps of chopped columns and sculpture fragments, overlapping floors and [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis  “Amidst the many tales of generosity, one in particular stands out. I had seen the announcement on Facebook (where Boroume has 7,500 followers): ‘For a public school in Piraeus, three slices of bread, sugar and milk wanted for 40 children with special needs.’ The request [...]

Eating Well Is The Best Revenge By Diana Farr Louis “These are the reminiscences of my husband Harilaos, known to some of you as Joy of the People, a rough translation of his name. As a very youthful octogenarian, he does not live in the past but I make him tell his stories over and [...]